Elon Musk faces tense questioning in cross-examination by OpenAI’s lawyer

Elon Musk faced tense questioning and showed frustration on the witness stand on Thursday during a second day of cross-examination by Sam Altman’s lawyer in a trial over a lawsuit Musk brought accusing OpenAI of abandoning its mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity.

The world’s richest person alleges that OpenAI, its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, and its President Greg Brockman wooed his $38 million in donations by promising to build a nonprofit that would prioritize safe development of AI, before pivoting to create a ‌for-profit entity to enrich ⁠themselves.